Burning a backup to DVD-DL

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sun Nov 12 02:18:47 UTC 2006


Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 8:35 PM -0500 11/11/06, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 	I have a backup of my system in an "exustar" .star archive file.  Its
>> 7.5 GB in size.  I want to write this file to a Double Layer DVD+R disk
>> which claims to be 8.5GB in capacity.  I have tried growisofs, and K3B,
>> and I can't seem to find the magic incantation which will allow me to ...
> 
> Take a look at the growisofs page at
> <http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/>.

Been there, done that.  If the answer is there, its buried behind
techno-speak and generalities.  And if you looked, that's the page I
quoted from in my OP.

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Kevin J. Cummings
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